Mapping thematic roles onto grammatical functions in sentence production: evidence from structural priming in Italian

Vernice, Mirta; Hartsuiker, Robert J.

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“…The fact that the prime and target sentences in the current study did not share content words, meaning, or homophones suggests that the observed syntactic priming occurred due to similarity in the syntactic representation between prime and target sentences (DO prime: VP-NP-NP-NP, DO target: VP-NP-NP-NP). This finding is in line with previous works on Indo-European languages (Hartsuiker et al, 2008;Messenger et al, 2012;Rowland et al, 2012;Bernolet et al, 2016;Branigan and Messenger, 2016;Vernice and Hartsuiker, 2019;Hardy et al, 2020;Coumel et al, 2022) as well as on Mandarin (Huang et al, 2016;Chen et al, 2019) but differs from data on Japanese (Chang et al, 2022). The difference from Japanese data is because Chang et al (2022) manipulated meaning in their experimental design, while no similar manipulation was done in the current study.…”

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“…There was a higher likelihood to use an active target sentence (e.g., the cat chased the mouse") after repeating an active prime sentence ("the farmer killed the duckling") than after repeating a passive ("the duckling was killed by the farmer"). These findings suggest a separate syntactic representation responsible for priming and are confirmed by works on such Indo-European languages as English (Messenger et al, 2012;Rowland et al, 2012;Branigan and Messenger, 2016;Hardy et al, 2020), German , Dutch (Hartsuiker et al, 2008;Bernolet et al, 2016), French (Coumel et al, 2022), and Italian (Vernice and Hartsuiker, 2019) as well as Mandarin (Huang et al, 2016;Chen et al, 2019).…”

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Priming the Arabic dative: Evidence for syntactic abstractness and implicit learning

Alzahrani

2022

Front. Educ.

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Language speakers are more likely to reuse a recently experienced syntactic structure, a phenomenon known as syntactic priming. However, empirical evidence for syntactic priming comes primarily from a small subset of Indo-European languages. Using a comprehension-to-production priming task, this preliminary study examined immediate and cumulative syntactic priming in Arabic, a language with a different typology than studied thus far. Nine native speakers of Arabic were primed to the Arabic double object (DO) dative construction. Results from a logistic regression model indicate that there were significant priming effects across all priming phases, with increased productions of the DO dative (a) during the priming task, (b) immediately after, (c) and 2 weeks later. These findings provide some support for the proposal that syntactic priming arises from an abstract syntactic level as well as the idea that priming is a form of implicit learning.

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Priming the Arabic dative: Evidence for syntactic abstractness and implicit learning

Alzahrani

2022

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“…Mercan and Hohenberger emphasized using structural priming to investigate syntactic structure and Ziegler et al emphasized its use to investigate semantic structure. Vernice and Hartsuiker (2019) concentrated on the mapping between the two levels, and considered how priming could help discriminate theories of how this mapping might occur. In their study, they used structural priming to modulate a default bias to assign agents as subjects, and found that priming increased the proportion of passives overall.…”

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Special issue on Structural Priming in Less-Studied Languages and Dialects: Introduction

Pickering

Branigan

2019

J Cult Cogn Sci

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We provide a brief introduction to the special issue of the Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science entitled Structural Priming in Less-Studied Languages and Dialects. Structural priming is the tendency for people to use linguistic structures that they have recently encountered. It has been extensively investigated in English and a few related languages, but there has been very little work on the vast majority of languages around the world. We are pleased to publish six papers concerned with Turkish, Norwegian, Irish, Italian, and two varieties of Portuguese. They are informative about many issues in linguistic representation and processing and help diversify psycholinguistics and the cognitive sciences more generally.

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Shared syntactic representations in bilinguals

Song

Lai

2021

LAB

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The current study explores the nature of constituent-structure-independent structural priming across the two languages of bilinguals. Specifically, this study tests whether such cross-linguistic priming involves the priming of functional-level syntactic representations shared between the languages, which can be distinguished from the priming of mainly non-syntactic information (e.g., information structure, thematic-role order). Critical prime sentences consisted of Cantonese actives in the Object-Subject-Verb (OSV) order and passives where the patient was grammatically topicalized with the same topic particle. Target responses were produced in English actives or passives. The results show that robust priming from Cantonese Topic-Passives to English passives occurred, but no cross-linguistic priming was observed for Cantonese Topic-OSV active primes. The Topic-OSV active and Topic-Passive constructions share information structure, and are formed in different constituent structures from English actives and passives. Therefore, the robust cross-linguistic passive priming by Topic-Passive primes should in large part be ascribed to functional-level syntactic representations of passive constructions shared by Cantonese and English.

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Mapping thematic roles onto grammatical functions in sentence production: evidence from structural priming in Italian

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Priming the Arabic dative: Evidence for syntactic abstractness and implicit learning

Priming the Arabic dative: Evidence for syntactic abstractness and implicit learning

Special issue on Structural Priming in Less-Studied Languages and Dialects: Introduction

Shared syntactic representations in bilinguals

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